You seem to assume that something not being a fact equates it with being an impossibility. This is untrue. It's perfectly reasonable to assume anything is untrue, and only a failure of a scientist would assume otherwise without good proof. Therefore, I again say that the difference between the 2 is one of failure to understand the implications of being an Atheist.
"Agnostic" is what someone claims to be because they do not understand the term Atheist, or want to sound like they have some mystical idea that sets them apart. The only real difference between the two is that Agnostics try to leave the door open so they don't get hounded quite as much, which I really can't blame them for, but to think there is a difference... well, saying you are Agnostic is to Atheism as saying you MAY be Christian is Monotheism. All it shows is a failure you make up your mind, or a failure to understand what you are talking about.
And for the record, the non-existence of something cannot be proven. It also does not ever need to be proven. The default state of everything in the universe is non-existent, and it takes proof to establish existence. God is not a special case; the burden of proof still lies upon the one asserting existence. Sure, you stand a chance of being wrong, but that's what being right is all about. If we had to prove non-existence, things get a little silly; for example, how can you prove that invisible purple monkeys DON'T steal socks from the laundry? You can't, because to do so would require you watch ALL laundry rooms 24 hours a day and 365 days a year for all eternity, starting from the beginning of time, and I don't want to hear you telling anyone they didn't really have their socks stolen by purple monkeys until you prove they don't exist. See how much nonsense it is to assume something starts in a state of "between"? Therefore, science (and logical reasoning in general), start at null. I am sorry if that breaks your world-view, but it breaks most people's.
I am not sure about anyone else here, but the last time I screwed something into my skin, it wasn't "pain-free". I can't even think of a way that could be pulled off - let alone one practical.
I don't see how less people is a bad thing when our planet is so overpopulated already that we're seriously looking at running out of important resources within the next decade. Which does not even begin to mention that unwanted children are probably not going to turn out to be upstanding citizens.
I, personally, am proud to be pro-abortion. Babies may be cute, but some day they'll grow up.
Linux has become what it has because of that fighting. It drives each side to become better, lest they lose users. This is not a bug, it's a feature, and it is the only reason that we're even having this discussion. Not only will your plan never happen, but I am glad it won't. Linux is Linux- if you want to have no choices, buy a Mac; they specialize in no choices.
Additionally, if users don't care what their computer does, they'll be fine not caring which of the options they choose. This seems to be working well for all the non-technical people i know using Ubuntu.
Which is still independent of the actual video framerate, though it is more dangerous in some other ways. It mostly depends on how the system itself is designed. You are correct that event driven systems (which most games are) may manifest strange behavior with simple time-passing, but nether system is perfect.
"A lot of games' physics are based on a time quantum based on that of the TV's vertical retrace, and developers need to retune the physics, retest all the levels to compensate for this."
Sure, last decade. Since games started being multiplayer, we have come beyond "frame has set time" thing, because even a small change in framerate would mean an unacceptable difference in in-game time between 2 computers. In game clocks would be invariably off as well.
For a very long time now, games have used the time between frames as a control to all that happens. You do not say "RunLoop()", you say "RunLoop(elapsedTime)". The game is generally the same, save the user interface, regardless of it running at 1 frame per second or 800.
Unlikely. Tales of Symphonia was pretty much based around Angels and the god(ess) they were associated with actually being an evil organization trying to commit genocide.
"If I were in Yoko's place, I'd probably have sued as well; if only to make it damn clear that I was not affiliated with, and in no way endorsed, the drivel spouted by those people."
Funny, because a press release would probably get just as much press, and would save everyone a whole lot of money, including the tax payers who fund the courts.
And remember; if you do not allow those you disagree with to speak, you do not deserve to speak yourself.
So because one (rightly) sees the natural order of things, as far as copyright goes, as being total freedom of information - they are automatically anarchists? Nice straw man.
It's worth saying that copyright is a very recent idea. If you need to know what the actual default position on copyright is, just go back and look at how media was handled before the printing press. There was pretty much no concept of anyone having rights to profit or control their works; it was invented only after the creation of media was made an industry.
Except, very often, the hackers/cheaters are ignored, where those who do just as you say end up being banned. Why? Because the real cheaters know how to not be caught.
It's really a losing situation, since in some cases, the problems can't be fixed in code. Aimbots, hacking range of view, etc, often can't be fixed simply by removing bugs, as they are not bugs. Some programs have attempted to stop this, with kinds of spyware and modified DRM, but most of them fail, and end up again targeting innocent players who happened to have a network or OS glitch set off the hacker detection.
On top of that, the only other way to fix the problem is the way we handle such in real life; limiting the incentives and creating punishments/deterrents, with actual people enforcing them. But this costs money, and people are human and often end up being corrupted, especially on more static games like MMOs.
It's really a catch 22. All that can be done is to accept cheating and hacking are going to happen some extent, and there is nothing we can do about it.
The event horizon is the point at which it would take infinite energy and breaking time-space to escape; but if you are being sucked in, you will not notice anything strange. To something being sucked in, the event horizon is meaningless, because you already could not have escaped long before. There are no strange effects on time simply from reaching the event horizon, but as you accelerate inwards, time would appear to speed up as you move ever closer to the speed of light.
As well, light will be massively red shifted - no sunburns here. This is due to the Doppler effect; the speed of light in the black hole remains constant, but your speed increases infinitely.
The granting of the control is not. It is effectively an artificial monopoly given out by the government to reproduce a certain work. Which is not really capitalistic; it just happens to be in the interests of the ruling class.
Yet another in a long line of pro-piracy articles from Slashdot over the years. Nobody wants to talk about the artists getting ripped off because of that site. Everyone wants to joke about how "down to earth" its owners are.
If not that site, it would be another. I fail to see why we should demonize the owners.
Everyone wants to scapegoat media companies to make them the bad guys in the narrative instead of the pirates ripping artists off.
The media companies have been lobbying the government(s) to create more laws further expanding copyright and their control over their copyrights. I hate to break this to you, but copyright has nothing to do with helping artists. It never did. Copyright was intended as a means to promote creation of art, which would enter the public domain in a set number of years. Copyright was created to help society, not artists.
Yet now we have the communistic handwringers who believe that copyright is a god-given right to have a stranglehold on your creations, of any kind, and profit from it no matter what. They associate intellectual property with physical property, which is an incredibly bad generalization on both sides. Not only does it grant ownership of ideas (which should be a concerning prospect), but it lowers the value of real property. How long before someone "pirates" your car, and no one cares, because there are so many more file sharers that need brought to justice?
Everyone wants to forget that artists willingly sign their contracts.
Which is the problem. As above, copyright was NOT intended to allow companies to leverage their copyright capital to create artistic monopolies, which is essentially what we have now. Sure, you can create some indie movie - but no one will ever see it, because the market is controlled on all ends by the media cartels; and if you ever did become successful, I find it likely that you would be sued by the cartels for similarities to their copyrights (which is nearly impossible to avoid).
Piracy is nothing more than freeloading.
On a small scale, yes. On a massive scale, no. Piracy is restoring the balance that was destroyed by Disney and friends years ago. It is a counter to something which was brushed under the carpet for this long. People are just now realizing what is wrong with copyright, en masse, because of the internet and thus piracy. It is becoming clear to most people that artificial monopolies and intangible value are hurting society. Because of this, the media companies are fighting back; attempting to control the internet, pass more draconian copyright laws, etc. And they are winning, thanks to apathy and people like you.
Software developers, musicians, filmmakers, authors, and so on--"Fuck their rights!"
Exactly - fuck their "rights"! They do not have the right to do what they have been doing, and only have it because they have spent millions to mislead the public into thinking they do.
If some artists must starve, which is just about as likely as Iraq having attacked us with WMDs, for society to function, than so be it. The artists and cartels have shown they do not, as a group, care about those starving in third world countries. Some may speak out, but only for publicity: if any one them truly cared, they would live a middle-upper class life and give their profits to the real poor, so why should anyone care about them starving? In my opinion, the world has bigger problems than that, and the lives that copyright has destroyed far outweigh a few broke artists.
Change is coming, like it or not, and your fictional right to control every word you write will end. I will not shed a tear.
Am I the only one here getting flashes of the Dharma initiative after reading this?
This part in particular got me:
The Superthreats
GEAS has identified five superthreats and given them memorable names as a way of encouraging discussion and awareness:
* Quarantine covers the global response to declining health and pandemic disease, including the current Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ReDS) crisis.
* Ravenous focuses on the imminent collapse of the global food system, as well as debates over industrial vs. ecological agricultural models, and basic issues of access, energy, and carbon.
* Power Struggle tracks the results of energy resource peaks and the shifts in international power as nations fight for energy supremacy and the world searches for alternative energy solutions.
* Outlaw Planet embodies the volatile mix of new forms of surveillance, transparency, civil rights, and access to information as people work out new rules for human security.
* Generation Exile follows the massive "diaspora of diasporas" underway globally, as the number of refugees and migrants skyrockets in the face of climate change, economic disruption, and war.
I can't seem to find a link now, but there are 6 variables in the Valenzetti Equation, and a few of them align directly to the "superthreats".
Slashdot Mirror
You seem to assume that something not being a fact equates it with being an impossibility. This is untrue. It's perfectly reasonable to assume anything is untrue, and only a failure of a scientist would assume otherwise without good proof. Therefore, I again say that the difference between the 2 is one of failure to understand the implications of being an Atheist.
"Agnostic" is what someone claims to be because they do not understand the term Atheist, or want to sound like they have some mystical idea that sets them apart. The only real difference between the two is that Agnostics try to leave the door open so they don't get hounded quite as much, which I really can't blame them for, but to think there is a difference... well, saying you are Agnostic is to Atheism as saying you MAY be Christian is Monotheism. All it shows is a failure you make up your mind, or a failure to understand what you are talking about.
And for the record, the non-existence of something cannot be proven. It also does not ever need to be proven. The default state of everything in the universe is non-existent, and it takes proof to establish existence. God is not a special case; the burden of proof still lies upon the one asserting existence. Sure, you stand a chance of being wrong, but that's what being right is all about. If we had to prove non-existence, things get a little silly; for example, how can you prove that invisible purple monkeys DON'T steal socks from the laundry? You can't, because to do so would require you watch ALL laundry rooms 24 hours a day and 365 days a year for all eternity, starting from the beginning of time, and I don't want to hear you telling anyone they didn't really have their socks stolen by purple monkeys until you prove they don't exist. See how much nonsense it is to assume something starts in a state of "between"? Therefore, science (and logical reasoning in general), start at null. I am sorry if that breaks your world-view, but it breaks most people's.
Actually, he was saying Nerd equals NOT (() Computers ()); everyone knows that!
I am not sure about anyone else here, but the last time I screwed something into my skin, it wasn't "pain-free". I can't even think of a way that could be pulled off - let alone one practical.
By the time they release it, they'll have fixed this bug.
I don't see how less people is a bad thing when our planet is so overpopulated already that we're seriously looking at running out of important resources within the next decade. Which does not even begin to mention that unwanted children are probably not going to turn out to be upstanding citizens.
I, personally, am proud to be pro-abortion. Babies may be cute, but some day they'll grow up.
Linux has become what it has because of that fighting. It drives each side to become better, lest they lose users. This is not a bug, it's a feature, and it is the only reason that we're even having this discussion. Not only will your plan never happen, but I am glad it won't. Linux is Linux- if you want to have no choices, buy a Mac; they specialize in no choices.
Additionally, if users don't care what their computer does, they'll be fine not caring which of the options they choose. This seems to be working well for all the non-technical people i know using Ubuntu.
What? You can't really think he didn't! It was rigged, I tell you.
In my book, it is outputting code that works well and is maintainable that makes a good programmer.
Which is still independent of the actual video framerate, though it is more dangerous in some other ways. It mostly depends on how the system itself is designed. You are correct that event driven systems (which most games are) may manifest strange behavior with simple time-passing, but nether system is perfect.
"A lot of games' physics are based on a time quantum based on that of the TV's vertical retrace, and developers need to retune the physics, retest all the levels to compensate for this."
Sure, last decade. Since games started being multiplayer, we have come beyond "frame has set time" thing, because even a small change in framerate would mean an unacceptable difference in in-game time between 2 computers. In game clocks would be invariably off as well.
For a very long time now, games have used the time between frames as a control to all that happens. You do not say "RunLoop()", you say "RunLoop(elapsedTime)". The game is generally the same, save the user interface, regardless of it running at 1 frame per second or 800.
I'll take eggsbaconsausage.spam.
Unlikely. Tales of Symphonia was pretty much based around Angels and the god(ess) they were associated with actually being an evil organization trying to commit genocide.
I think that if that happened, the economy would become futile.
A later of Lamé would get around IR.
"If I were in Yoko's place, I'd probably have sued as well; if only to make it damn clear that I was not affiliated with, and in no way endorsed, the drivel spouted by those people."
Funny, because a press release would probably get just as much press, and would save everyone a whole lot of money, including the tax payers who fund the courts.
And remember; if you do not allow those you disagree with to speak, you do not deserve to speak yourself.
So because one (rightly) sees the natural order of things, as far as copyright goes, as being total freedom of information - they are automatically anarchists? Nice straw man.
It's worth saying that copyright is a very recent idea. If you need to know what the actual default position on copyright is, just go back and look at how media was handled before the printing press. There was pretty much no concept of anyone having rights to profit or control their works; it was invented only after the creation of media was made an industry.
Except, very often, the hackers/cheaters are ignored, where those who do just as you say end up being banned. Why? Because the real cheaters know how to not be caught.
It's really a losing situation, since in some cases, the problems can't be fixed in code. Aimbots, hacking range of view, etc, often can't be fixed simply by removing bugs, as they are not bugs. Some programs have attempted to stop this, with kinds of spyware and modified DRM, but most of them fail, and end up again targeting innocent players who happened to have a network or OS glitch set off the hacker detection.
On top of that, the only other way to fix the problem is the way we handle such in real life; limiting the incentives and creating punishments/deterrents, with actual people enforcing them. But this costs money, and people are human and often end up being corrupted, especially on more static games like MMOs.
It's really a catch 22. All that can be done is to accept cheating and hacking are going to happen some extent, and there is nothing we can do about it.
The 11 volume label was measured in base-2.
Not the case.
The event horizon is the point at which it would take infinite energy and breaking time-space to escape; but if you are being sucked in, you will not notice anything strange. To something being sucked in, the event horizon is meaningless, because you already could not have escaped long before. There are no strange effects on time simply from reaching the event horizon, but as you accelerate inwards, time would appear to speed up as you move ever closer to the speed of light.
As well, light will be massively red shifted - no sunburns here. This is due to the Doppler effect; the speed of light in the black hole remains constant, but your speed increases infinitely.
92.7% of people agree that real numbers are no more useful than the ones you make up.
The granting of the control is not. It is effectively an artificial monopoly given out by the government to reproduce a certain work. Which is not really capitalistic; it just happens to be in the interests of the ruling class.
Yet another in a long line of pro-piracy articles from Slashdot over the years. Nobody wants to talk about the artists getting ripped off because of that site. Everyone wants to joke about how "down to earth" its owners are.
If not that site, it would be another. I fail to see why we should demonize the owners.
Everyone wants to scapegoat media companies to make them the bad guys in the narrative instead of the pirates ripping artists off.
The media companies have been lobbying the government(s) to create more laws further expanding copyright and their control over their copyrights. I hate to break this to you, but copyright has nothing to do with helping artists. It never did. Copyright was intended as a means to promote creation of art, which would enter the public domain in a set number of years. Copyright was created to help society, not artists.
Yet now we have the communistic handwringers who believe that copyright is a god-given right to have a stranglehold on your creations, of any kind, and profit from it no matter what. They associate intellectual property with physical property, which is an incredibly bad generalization on both sides. Not only does it grant ownership of ideas (which should be a concerning prospect), but it lowers the value of real property. How long before someone "pirates" your car, and no one cares, because there are so many more file sharers that need brought to justice?
Everyone wants to forget that artists willingly sign their contracts.
Which is the problem. As above, copyright was NOT intended to allow companies to leverage their copyright capital to create artistic monopolies, which is essentially what we have now. Sure, you can create some indie movie - but no one will ever see it, because the market is controlled on all ends by the media cartels; and if you ever did become successful, I find it likely that you would be sued by the cartels for similarities to their copyrights (which is nearly impossible to avoid).
Piracy is nothing more than freeloading.
On a small scale, yes. On a massive scale, no. Piracy is restoring the balance that was destroyed by Disney and friends years ago. It is a counter to something which was brushed under the carpet for this long. People are just now realizing what is wrong with copyright, en masse, because of the internet and thus piracy. It is becoming clear to most people that artificial monopolies and intangible value are hurting society. Because of this, the media companies are fighting back; attempting to control the internet, pass more draconian copyright laws, etc. And they are winning, thanks to apathy and people like you.
Software developers, musicians, filmmakers, authors, and so on--"Fuck their rights!"
Exactly - fuck their "rights"! They do not have the right to do what they have been doing, and only have it because they have spent millions to mislead the public into thinking they do.
If some artists must starve, which is just about as likely as Iraq having attacked us with WMDs, for society to function, than so be it. The artists and cartels have shown they do not, as a group, care about those starving in third world countries. Some may speak out, but only for publicity: if any one them truly cared, they would live a middle-upper class life and give their profits to the real poor, so why should anyone care about them starving? In my opinion, the world has bigger problems than that, and the lives that copyright has destroyed far outweigh a few broke artists.
Change is coming, like it or not, and your fictional right to control every word you write will end. I will not shed a tear.
This part in particular got me:
The Superthreats
GEAS has identified five superthreats and given them memorable names as a way of encouraging discussion and awareness:
* Quarantine covers the global response to declining health and pandemic disease, including the current Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ReDS) crisis.
* Ravenous focuses on the imminent collapse of the global food system, as well as debates over industrial vs. ecological agricultural models, and basic issues of access, energy, and carbon.
* Power Struggle tracks the results of energy resource peaks and the shifts in international power as nations fight for energy supremacy and the world searches for alternative energy solutions.
* Outlaw Planet embodies the volatile mix of new forms of surveillance, transparency, civil rights, and access to information as people work out new rules for human security.
* Generation Exile follows the massive "diaspora of diasporas" underway globally, as the number of refugees and migrants skyrockets in the face of climate change, economic disruption, and war.
I can't seem to find a link now, but there are 6 variables in the Valenzetti Equation, and a few of them align directly to the "superthreats".
Interesting coincidence? Do I watch too much TV?
I only use bash, you insensitive clod!